America is not the country it use to be, no more are the days of simplicity. In recent years, Obama has changed many different aspects of this country. In fact, Obama has had an impact on health care, education, and war in both negative and positive ways.
On March 23, 2010, Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, into law. This act led to changes within hospitals and workplaces across the nation. One change is the way hospitals are run. According to Roper, "That means hospitals are focusing on what happens after a patient is released-- are they getting follow-up care, seeing their primary physician, taking necessary medications? And hospital care is being even more closely documented" (2). Because
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Nevertheless, schools are facing hard times and taking the loss right where it hurts, the pocketbook. Many states signed up for the new curriculum within only two months, which was not nearly long enough to make sure that the new learning standard was fit for them. By signing up, these states agreed to buy tests and upgrade their technology to administer the tests. All of this added up to thirty dollars per student, more than what half the states can afford. “Common Core Causes Collateral Damage” reveals, “Just last month, Maryland announced it would need $100 million to get schools up to speed to administer the tests”(McShane, 2). If schools are having to spend all their money on tests and technology, that will mean cutbacks in other places. This could affect their ability to provide for textbooks, school programs, equipment, and other objects needed for daily school life.
When Barack Obama first became the president of the United States, he was focused on ending the war on terrorism. Obama wanted to make his counterterrorism policies less aggressive than George W. Bush’s approach to the matter. While this idea was a good one, Obama’s tactics were based on idealism and wishful thinking. This too passive approach has led to the hindrance of combatting terrorism, and the people of America are being faced with more terrorism rather than
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It is not hard to see where Obama stands since the drones are unmanned, which means less American casualties. Not to mention, the drones’ accuracy leaves nothing to be desired. However, the drones are still not perfect. Their targeting depends on the intelligence available to the pilot, and it is impossible to fully avoid civilian casualties. As a result, civilians being killed means a raise in contempt for the United States. A rising contempt for America makes it easier for terrorists to find new recruits to use against American armies. In fact, Stern says, “The use of drones to target suspected al Qaeda operatives in Yemen has been correlated with a rapid growth in membership in the group’s Yemen-based affiliate” (“Obama And Terrorism”, 3). The use of drones mainly end with a continuous circle of death and
Prior to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), few people anticipated employer-provided health care would disappear as a major player in the United State healthcare arena. However, ACA adoption and has put more than 169 million employees at risk for losing their workplace coverage. Several studies indicate employer-based coverage will decline rapidly over the next decade as the traditional US system is displaced by the healthcare exchange system. While consumers grapple with finding affordable coverage options and providers adjust to the new norms, there is another wrinkle in the mix. In January, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced the agency's push toward value-based and alternative reimbursement models.
After examining the speeches from past Presidents Ronald Reagan and Richard M. Nixon, and the current president, Barack Obama. You can see the resemblance and the differences in their point of views for the future of America. Comparing President Richard M. Nixon’s first inaugural speech, Reagan’s Speech at the Republican National Convention in 1988, and Obama’s “Remarks of President Barack Obama State of the Union Address”, you can see the ways they think alike from their own perspective. Though they are attempting to make America the perfect nation, their approach and ideas differ in many ways.
The Affordable Care Act, (ACA) often referred to as Obamacare, was signed into law March 23rd, 2010 and has quickly become a nightmare to millions of citizens nationwide. While there were fortunate people who benefited from the heavily subsidized and affordable healthcare that was not readily available before ACA was passed, many more people found that their once affordable healthcare was no longer an option due to new ACA requirements (how so?). ACA was designed to extend insurance benefits to roughly 30 million uninsured Americans. The Obama administration aimed to extend Medicaid and provide federal subsidies so lower and middle-class Americans could afford to buy private insurance. This act alone forced millions of Americans out of their
The ACA and the Health Care Delivery System a Critics have claimed that the ACA overlooked the need to reform the delivery system in our nation so as to constrain its costs and improve its quality. A careful examination of the law, however, shows that it constitutes one of the most aggressive efforts in the history of the nation to address the problems of the delivery system. Just over 5 years ago, on March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law. Its enactment may constitute the most important event of the Obama presidency and could fundamentally affect the future of health care in the United States. From a historical perspective, 5 years is a very short time, far too short to assess definitively the
During a joint session with Congress on February 24, 2009, President Obama said, "So let there be no doubt: Healthcare reform cannot wait, it must not wait, and it will not wait another year” (8). Almost thirteen months later, after a process of revisions and being passed through the United States Government, President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
There is reaIIy no proof that these hypotheticaIs wiII actuaIIy occur, so this faIIacy has the form of an appeaI to emotion by Ieveraging fear in the audience. Towards the end of his speech, Obama uses a non sequitur by saying, “That’s what makes America different. That’s what makes us exceptionaI. With humiIity, but with resoIve, Iet us never Iose sight of that essentiaI truth.” It is not cIear what it is that makes America different and exceptionaI and he has just jumped to a concIusion that does not foIIow the premises which is sIightIy irreIevant. IastIy, Obama manages to contradict himseIf heaviIy by saying in the beginning how we must act urgentIy and perform the strike as soon as possibIe but at the end of the speech; he expIained how Russia and Syria were in negotiations to possibIy reach a peacefuI settIement of turning their “chemicaI weapons” over to the U.N. He then went on to say that he wiII deIay the proposaI for congress and wait to see how the negotiations pIanned out.
U.S. drone strikes come with risks. They can kill innocent civilians, they can undermine the authority of other nations, and they grant the president the power to assassinate anyone he deems is a terrorist threat abroad, without any authorization. For all the controversy surrounding the drone attacks they have one thing going for them. They are effective and the alternatives are not. Since 2013, President Obama has greatly expanded the use of drones, deploying more than 360 strikes, which is up nearly 50 from the Bush administration.
Before the Affordable Care Act was put into work, over 45 million Americans were uninsured. The Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, was then made to help those who were uninsured. It allowed people with financial struggles with the same opportunity as everyone else to have a healthcare plan. Even though the law was passed in 2010, it took a full year of back and forth to get it passed in the Senate. Obamacare may help you get coverage, but charge you an annual fee if you don’t have one.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) have raised controversy on whether the law supports or damages the health insurance for all Americans. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) or commonly known as Obamacare is a federal law signed by President Barack Obama on 2010. According to the website ‘Obama Care Facts’ this law “creates a mandate for large employers to provide insurance, the expansion of Medicaid, and the opening of Health Insurance Marketplaces to help subsidize private insurance.” Its main goal is to provide and improve affordable health care insurance for all Americans but due to the divide opinions about the ACA, congress has judged over 50 repeal attempts. As a last attempt to overthrow the law; the Republican Party from
On average more than 1 innocent civilian is in killed in every drone strike. When Barrack Obama first came to power there was a wave of optimism that America would take a more diplomatic and humanitarian approach to the on-going disputes in the Middle East. Indeed, he was even awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in his first year in office. However he had blood on his hands after being President for just 3 days, it was his first drone strike and killed at least 9 innocent civilians, most of these were all from one family. Another incident was Din Mohammad, who had the misfortune of neighbouring militants reported to be part of the Haggani Network, who are fighting against the United States in Afghanistan in Danda Darpakhel, North
As president Obama stated at the National Defense University, “...our actions are effective. Don’t take my word for it. In the intelligence gathered at Bin Laden’s compound, we found that he wrote, “We could lose the reserves to enemy’s air strikes. We cannot fight air strikes with explosives.”
Many U.S. officials and prominent citizens have spoken out against drone strikes. General Stanley McChrystal, former leader of the US military in Afghanistan, echoes Boyle’s concerns in a Reuter’s interview. He says that the "resentment created by American use of unmanned strikes... is much greater than the average American appreciates. They are hated on a visceral level, even by people who 've never seen one or seen the effects of one" (Alexander). Ron Paul, MD, stated the following in his article titled "Ron Paul: Down with Deadly Drones”: "The use of drones overseas may have become so convenient, operated as they are from a great distance, that far more 'collateral damage ' has become acceptable.
The usage of drones for military strikes is immoral because it’s inhuman to kill the terrorists and leave their families to pick up parts of their beloved family member, it’s unfair to sacrifice
Drones have killed over a total of 467 civilians in the past two years. All of these deaths were caused by a drone dysfunction. None of these accidents have ever received an apology from the drone operator or the president themselves. Drones are armed aircrafts used to protect the country. The fact is that Drones are not good at protecting the people inside this territory.
Decapitating of the leaders, or the killing, arrest or capturing of the leaders of terrorist organisations, has become an essential feature of United State’s counterterrorism policy design. Many scholars and analysts claim that it weakens terrorist organisations and reduces the threat they pose. Unsurprisingly, the killing of Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011, in Abbottabad, Pakistan, has proved to be a major tactical victory for President Barack Obama and specially for the war on terrorism. Despite the success of this operation and successive attacks on al-Qaida leaders, decapitation is unlikely to lessen the ability of al-Qaida to continue its terrorism in the long run. Rather, it may have counterproductive consequences, fortifying or nourishing the